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Solution: The Skyline Problem

Explore how to calculate the city skyline by merging overlapping building segments using the union-find data structure. Understand sorting techniques, coordinate indexing, and height merging to produce a concise skyline outline.

Statement

Imagine standing at a distance, viewing the skyline of a city. The skyline is the shape formed by all the buildings in the city when viewed together. Your task is to determine the shape of this skyline, given all the buildings’ position and height. Each building is represented by three values in the array buildings, where buildings[i]=[lefti, righti, heighti]buildings[i] = [left_i,~right_i,~ height_i] ...